“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.” — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this? — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77” — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ...… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ” — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share
